Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, has said the military was avoiding the use of heavy power attacks on the abductors of school girls in Chibok, Borno, for the sake of the girls’ safety.
He, however, assured that the military would free the girls.
Mr. Badeh, an Air Chief Marshall, made the remark when the Board and Management of National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, paid a visit to the Defence Headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday.
The chief of defence staff assured that the military would soon free the school girls from their abductors.
He condemned the activities of the insurgents in the north, saying “what is happening in the northern Nigeria is pure madness.”
“It is not the number of those abducted that is the issue but the attendant psychological trauma of every parent.
“We were given information about where they are. We cannot use heavy power attack because we will kill the school girls but I assure you that we will free them’’, he said.
Over 270 girls were kidnapped from their school, Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14 by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect. Of this number, 230 are yet to be found and are believed to be with their abductors. Forty-three others have been united with their parents with many of them escaping from their kidnappers.
Thousands of Nigerians have condemned the kidnap and asked the government to free the girls unharmed. On Wednesday, scores of women defiled the rain to protest in Abuja; demanding freedom for the final year school girls.
via nigerianeye
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